Lt. Gov. Troy Findley speaks Wednesday during an event at Topeka's Philip Billard Municipal Airpot. The state released a report that said Kansas airports employed 47,000 people with a payroll of $2.3 billion and economic activity of $10.4 billion.

The $337,000 study -- funded mostly by the Federal Aviation Administration -- assessed the impact of the state’s 132 general aviation airports and eight commercial airports.